Threat Assessment Team Training

To support our efforts in improving student safety and strengthening your threat assessment teams, we are offering a comprehensive 2-day training program focused on developing multidisciplinary, community-based threat assessment teams. This training will cover the history and background of threat assessment, targeted violence, relevant research, risk factors, and behavioral indicators of individuals who may be planning to engage in targeted violence. It also provides training on the concept and advantages of a community- based, multidisciplinary threat assessment system, team dynamics, threat assessment process, and management principles.

Learning Objectives
• Understand what threat assessment is, its purpose, and when to initiate the process.
• Understand the research in the area of targeted violence
• Understand the value of utilizing a multidisciplinary process for threat assessment and management
• Understand the threat assessment process
• Understand the process involved in conducting a multidisciplinary threat assessment team meeting.

Presented by David Okada

Register HERE! Registration deadline is June 6, 2025 and is limited to 45 individuals.

Funding provided in while or in part by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, Office of Homeland Security.